The EPA ordered BP to stop using it. BP refused. The EPA backs down.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday the government isn't prepared at this point to forbid BP to use a controversial chemical dispersant to fight the spread of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But, she said she expects to see a reduction in the amount of the dispersant, Corexit, that BP is using.
"In my opinion, we have not yet crossed the line where we should take that tool off the table altogether," Jackson said at a news conference at the Venice Marina, after seeing for the first time oil that has infiltrated marsh near Pass a Loutre.
When BP is allowed to bully the federal government into acquiescing, we have a serious problem.
We're utterly helpless in this thing.